TEENAGE DREAM

06.NARRATIVE

today was the gender reveal party and lola couldn't lie, she was kind of bummed out. she was forced to see vinnie and spend two hours with him.

"i'm here!" vinnie announced in a sing song tone. "the star has arrived."

"vinnie i live here," she laughed but he just gave her the side eye. "oh lighten up."

"anyways, you guys ready?" sissy walked over and gave the two a balloon and a big cake. "first cut the cake." they did as instructed and inside the cake was blue.

"we're having boys!" lola smiled and jumped up and down.

"pop the balloon," sissy tells them. the confetti turned out to be pink.

"sissy is this your way of telling me i'm having quadruplets?"

"lola you dummy, the twins are fraternal you idiot." lola rolled her eyes but quickly turned her scowl into a smile.

"vinnie?" he turned to face her with a concerned look on his face. "next time you tell me to abort it," she put air quotes around abort it, "you better be talking about mission impossible and not my damn kids or i'll cut you a new asshole."

"for a pregnant lady you sure are mean," he ate his cake as he side eyed her.

"give me the side eye one more time," she threatened. he put his hands up in defense. "yea that's what i thought." she sat down on her cream sofa.

"i got something for the twins," he pulls out a box.

"now vinnie i'm not marrying you," she told him.

"you wish," he opened the box to reveal two bracelets. "i got these engraved." one read to my beautiful daughter and to the son i love the most.

"now how did you know it's a boy and a girl?"

"i asked sissy before hand, " he explained. "kinda glad i did because they could've said for twin one and twin two."

"yea, glad you did," she muttered. "shit." she ran to her bathroom and she's pretty sure everything's she's eaten since 2006 just came out of her.

"and you're going to hide the pregnancy how?" vinnie questioned.

"maybe i'll murder you," she turned back to the toilet and continued to throw up. "that way there won't be any witnesses." she said after she finished throwing up.

"have fun birthing twins in prison," he joked but she wasn't laughing.

"vinnie?" he sat down next to her. "i think i want to go to cosmetology school and then open my own hair salon."

"now what did those poor people do to you?" vinnie laughed and lola punched him. "kidding, you should do it. i believe in you."

"i'm not naming our son vincent," she told him.

"but why!" he threw his hands up. "vincent alvarez hacker, it's amazing!"

"you don't get to play daddy when you didn't even want them in the first place," she got up and brushed her teeth. when she was done, he was standing behind her. "vinnie move."

he leaned in closer to her and softly placed a hand on the back of her neck. "you know, i've never been this close to you without being drunk." he pulled her in for a kiss and placed a kiss on her lips.

she placed her hands on the sides of his face and she leaned in. "you're right, if i wasn't pregnant i'd drink twelve bottles of vodka just to forget i was next to you."

"lola you're annoying, you know that?" she laughed and patted him on the back.

"thank you,"

"for what?"

"you didn't have to get those bracelets but you did," she pulled him in for a hug.

"i got you." but for some reason it felt like he was lying. it could be all in lola's head but it felt like he's just telling her these pretty little lies just so he doesn't feel like an ass.